Blood Diamond

KOIDU, Sierra Leone (AFP) - It has been weeks since miner Sembo Sesay found a diamond in this eastern Sierra Leone town, whose soil was once littered with the stones that fuelled one of Africa's bloodiest wars.  

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dgc8tm/sierra_leone_tel) has announced the addition of the "Sierra Leone - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband" report to their offering. New International Fibre Link Expected to Boost Internet and Broadband Market: Following more than a decade of civil war, Sierra Leone has enjoyed peace, stability and rapid economic growth since 2002. The country's...  

Decades ago the mine provided diamonds with which rebels bought weapons – hence the term, “blood diamonds.” But today, the same mine is beginning to result in renewed foreign investment that creates jobs for people in the area. The rebels with guns ...  

Israeli Firm Starts Stone Crushing Plant at Well Managed Diamond Mine There are no more "blood diamonds" in Sierra Leone; instead, there are pockets of prosperity and an overriding sense of optimism as foreign investment pours into modern mining operations and other sectors of the economy, including construction and road building. Read more.Sierra Leone is one of Africa's great success stories. The country's potential is truly...  

The west African state of Sierra Leone has taken another symbolic step away from its wartime image as the home of the "blood diamond". An Israeli-owned company has started operating a big new stone-crushing plant at a modern diamond mine in the ...  

Addressing Sierra Leoneans including paramount chiefs, civil society groups, women's groups and others at the Miatta conference hall in Freetown past Saturday, President Ernest Koroma stated that the honeymoon for reckless journalism was over and that his ...  

It has been 10 years since the civil war in Sierra Leone ended. For Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, however, the war and its effects are engraved not just in the memories of the band members, but in the group’s very name. As listeners to t ...  

NORTH CALDWELL - Members of the West Essex High School National Art Honor Society created 35 portraits of less fortunate orphaned children in Sierra Leone, a West African nation plagued by civil war from 1991-2002. The portraits were hand-delivered to the ...  

“According to the Gemological Institute of America, demand for colored diamonds has been unprecedented and The Rough Diamond Index has outperformed The Gold Index over the past 63 years, and the forecast for the next 5-8 years is even stronger ...  

Gold and GemStone Mining Inc. (OTCBB: GGSMD), an alluvial diamond and gold exploration and development stage mining company focused on Sierra Leone, West Africa has opened its mining development office in the Country's Capital, Freetown. GGSM has moved ...